bomboy
English
Noun
bomboy (plural bomboys)
- (historical) A native supervisor of native laborers in colonial Africa.
- Quoted in 1980, A. van Dantzig, Forts and Castles of Ghana (page 83)
- Two Bomboys to take care [while] six Labourers work in the Garden and the Stockyard. Cudjoe, the Slaves' Bomboy went with ten Women to cut & carry Wood.
- Quoted in 1980, A. van Dantzig, Forts and Castles of Ghana (page 83)